learning bible

!time:00:42 "overview of the whole bible"

!time:01:03 God has not given us a topical bible. Or a series of referencable texts. God has given a library of books. In the context of a particular time and space.

!time:03:11 there is a geography of the bible as well as a history of the bible

!time:03:21 two maps we need are the map of the whole middle east and the promised land.

!time:03:32 middle east is known as the fertile crescent. links river nile in the east and river tigris to the east. these two areas are centers of power between egypt and assyrian or babylonian empires.

!time:05:18 all transit between the two powers went through Megiddo in Israel. Israel was the crossroads of the world. "If you live in the crossroads you're bound to get run over. Which is exactly what happened... by the Greeks, Assyrians, the Egyptians."

!time:06:48 the road from Europe crosses the road from Africa at the hill of Megiddo - the Cross Roads of the World. Megiddo in Hebrew is Armageddon. Most of the great battles in history took place there.

!time:09:40 "you've got the whole world squeezed into this little point"

!time:14:07 the four quarters of Hebrew History. Period - Leader - Leadership: Election - Ambraham - Patriarchs, Exodus - Moses - Prophets, Empire - David -Princes, Exile - Isaiah -Priests.

!time:16:36 400 year gaps. God is dead. He did nothing, and said nothing. First gap was India, China. Second gap was Greeks, Romans, Caesar.

!time:31:51 all history is based on selection and connection. selection = curation of events, and connection creates a narrative around those events. prophetic history = events to do with god, and connected to god.